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Bertie's Peanut Brittle Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup water
1 cup white corn syrup
3 1/4 cups sugar
1 pound raw peanuts
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/2 stick butter
Directions:
Directions:
1. Mix water, syrup, and sugar together in large pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally. When boiling begins, put in thermometer and cook to 250º.

2. Remove thermometer; add peanuts and butter. Cook, stirring constantly, until peanuts SMELL done (310º on the thermometer). Watch carefully so it doesn't burn.

3. Remove from heat and quickly stir in vanilla and baking soda.

2. Immediately pour onto buttered marble slab or buttered cookie sheets; stretch, using spatula, and keep going around edges to stretch as thinly as possible before it sets up and becomes brittle.

3. When cooled, break into pieces. Store tightly covered.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
1975, from Bertie Atwood
She made pounds and pounds of this every Holiday season, to give out to friends and family. She didn't use a spatula, but even had her own special pair of heavy, elbow-length gloves that she used when she stretched the hot candy on her big marble slab.

 

 

 

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